Loving and leaving: Sex differences in romantic attachments

Rubin, Zick; Peplau, Letitia Anne; Hill, Charles T.

doi:10.1007/bf00287767

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“…They suggest that if attraction can be considered the first step of falling in love, this finding is in keeping with other research which found that men fall in love more quickly than women (Kanin, Davidson, & Scheck, 1970;Rubin, Peplau, & Hill, 1981). However, they point out that since their findings were not significant, more research needs to be done.…”

Section: Gender Differencesupporting

confidence: 74%

Care, need, and conceptions of love : a reexamination

Morris¹

2000

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The present study examines the roles need and care play in such positive interpersonal attitudes as love, liking, attraction, and friendship, by both replicating and extending a 1982 study by Steck, Levitan, McLane, and Kelley. Subjects were presented with slightly revised Rubin Love Scales which were filled out as if by persons ~ involved in relationships, and were asked to judge how -much each hypothetical person loved, liked, was attracted to, and felt friendly toward their partner. In fact, the 2 love scales had been divided into three components, i.e. need, care, and trust, and were filled out with each component at a specific level. Nine patterns were devised using all possible combinations of high, medium, and low levels of care and need, and holding trust at a constant medium level.

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Section: Gender Differencesupporting

confidence: 74%

Care, need, and conceptions of love : a reexamination

Morris¹

2000

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“…(7) and (8) and Figs. 2-4), represent stable periods in relationships are subject to the effects of emotional, psychological, social structural, and cultural force [35]. The transition between states could be interpreted as instabilities caused by these forces.…”

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“…But integrative theories are still lacking. The study of relationships has begun to hold both the artistic imaginations and interdisciplinary intellectual interests of various scholars in the fields of sociology, biology, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and mathematics [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Since experiments in these areas are difficult to design and may be constrained by ethical considerations, mathematical models can play a vital role in studying the dynamics of relationships and their behavioral features.…”

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Stochastic nonlinear dynamics of interpersonal and romantic relationships

Barley

Cherif

2011

Applied Mathematics and Computation

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“…Men, in contrast to women, appear to derive more emotional support from their opposite-sex relationships than their same-sex friendships (e.g., [3]), and marriage's protective psychological and physical health effects are notably stronger for men than women [6,27,28]. Men tend to fall in love more rapidly than do women, as reflected in their higher scores on measures of romanticism (e.g., love at first sight) [35,36,43]. Thus, men in this predominantly heterosexual sample may have been more willing than women to sacrifice some goals for an emotionally intimate partnership.…”

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College Students’ Life Priorities: The Influence of Gender and Gender-linked Personality Traits

Mosher

Danoff–Burg

2007

Gend. Issues

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This study examined relations between gender-linked personality traits (i.e., agency and communion) and life goals in a sample of 237 undergraduates. In addition, gender similarities and differences in the relative importance of life goals were explored. As predicted, agency was positively associated with the importance of most achievement goals such as having a career, whereas communion and unmitigated communion were positively associated with the importance of relational goals such as romantic partnership. Contrary to predictions, results suggested that men were more willing than women to sacrifice some achievement goals for a romantic relationship. Findings point to the potential influence of gender and gender-linked personality traits on the establishment of life priorities.

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Loving and leaving: Sex differences in romantic attachments

Cited by 128 publications

References 10 publications

Care, need, and conceptions of love : a reexamination

Care, need, and conceptions of love : a reexamination

Stochastic nonlinear dynamics of interpersonal and romantic relationships

College Students’ Life Priorities: The Influence of Gender and Gender-linked Personality Traits

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